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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

BrianLo

BrianLo

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brideck said:
Well, there you have it. That should mean that Disney had the three most profitable movies of 2024. The struggle is real.
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Interesting the way Moana 2 is breaking up. I think there are some massive backends coming considering Moana 1 remains the number one streamed movie every year.
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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brideck said:
But again... we're talking about kids here. Even if I take your descriptors at face value (not that I agree with them), 8-year olds watch all sorts of "digital trash" and grow up having warm, nostalgic feelings about it anyway. We really can't predict what the long-term feelings about them will be from that set of people.

It's very clear what your long-term feelings for them are, but that's neither here nor there.
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Agree. The difference in this conversation is we are not talking about movies that weren’t watched and maybe will catch on. Kids again saw these ones.

Certainly episode 7 and 8 did very, very well. So I really think it’s fair of us to say we don’t know. Episode 2 was and is objectively awful, yet prequels generated nostalgia in a cohort Gen X swore it wouldn’t.

I’m not a true Star Wars guy, but my millennial friends fit that classic demo, who really like prequels and the filoni output.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

Premium Member
BrianLo said:
Episode 2 was and is objectively awful
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I know people like to target Episode 1 as the punching bag of that trilogy, and for obvious Jar Jar reasons.
But Episode 2 was my least favorite of all those.

At least the Ep 1 stupidity can be laughed at, and redeemed somewhat with Duel of the Fates... one of my favorite scenes in any SW.
Ep 2, however, just seems unwatchable today, at least most of it. For me at least.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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Prince-1

Prince-1

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Disney Irish said:
For those worried about Rachel Zegler's future movie prospects she has already lined up her next role co-starring alongside Marisa Tomei -

variety.com

Rachel Zegler to Star Alongside Marisa Tomei in Comedy Drama ‘She Gets It From Me’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Embankment Films is selling the film, which marks Zegler's first after Snow White and sees her play the daughter of Tomei's anarchic birth mother
variety.com variety.com
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How can that be??? A few of the movie experts on here said that her career was over and that she wouldn't work again???
 
Ghost93

Ghost93

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Prince-1 said:
How can that be??? A few of the movie experts on here said that her career was over and that she wouldn't work again???
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Zegler definitely has a fanbase, just not enough broad appeal in America to lead blockbusters that cost more than $200 million. I think she can still have a very successful career in smaller, actor-focused projects. She's a very good actress, so I think she will always be able to find some kind of work.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
Ghost93 said:
Zegler definitely has a fanbase, just not enough broad appeal in America to lead blockbusters that cost more than $200 million. I think she can still have a very successful career in smaller, actor-focused projects. She's a very good actress, so I think she will always be able to find some kind of work.
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In all fairness very few actors can lead a blockbuster that costs over $200M and has broad appeal. Its the reason why you see the same actors over and over in these movies. And even then not all are successful 100% of the time.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

Premium Member
Disney Irish said:
For those worried about Rachel Zegler's future movie prospects she has already lined up her next role co-starring alongside Marisa Tomei -

variety.com

Rachel Zegler to Star Alongside Marisa Tomei in Comedy Drama ‘She Gets It From Me’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Embankment Films is selling the film, which marks Zegler's first after Snow White and sees her play the daughter of Tomei's anarchic birth mother
variety.com variety.com
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Prince-1 said:
How can that be??? A few of the movie experts on here said that her career was over and that she wouldn't work again???
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I'm going to take a wild guess here, and say that Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers YT channel has already seen this movie, walked out of the theater, and has made 10+ new videos talking about how it's woke trash.

Oh... what's that? They haven't started production of her new movie yet? Well I can 100% guarantee you it's his least favorite movie of (insert year it's released here).
 
Ghost93

Ghost93

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Disney Irish said:
In all fairness very few actors can lead a blockbuster that costs over $200M and has broad appeal. Its the reason why you see the same actors over and over in these movies. And even then not all are successful 100% of the time.
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Zegler has proven to be divisive. I say that as a fan of her acting who wants her to succeed. I think she can still continue to be true to herself and what she believes in and still have a good career, I just don't think the Disney machine is the right fit for her. I think A24-type films or an HBO prestige drama is more likely where she will thrive.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
Ghost93 said:
Zegler has proven to be divisive. I say that as a fan of her acting who wants her to succeed. I think she can still continue to be true to herself and what she believes in and still have a good career, I just don't think the Disney machine is the right fit for her. I think A24-type films or an HBO prestige drama is more likely where she will thrive.
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Well remember that Disney has its own studio just for those type of films, Searchlight. So she still can be in the "Disney" machine and still make those type of movies if that is what both parties choose to do.

But beyond that I highly doubt she will be limited to just indy/low budget fair the rest of her career. She'll be in a blockbuster again even if its part of an ensemble cast, she is too talented not to. I mean Snow White isn't even out of theaters yet, so she already beat out the odds the "experts" here set who claimed she'd never book a movie again or at least for a very long time.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
BTW, in case anyone was tracking, Snow White crossed the $200M WW total today -

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Nubs70

Nubs70

Well-Known Member
Ghost93 said:
Zegler has proven to be divisive. I say that as a fan of her acting who wants her to succeed. I think she can still continue to be true to herself and what she believes in and still have a good career, I just don't think the Disney machine is the right fit for her. I think A24-type films or an HBO prestige drama is more likely where she will thrive.
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She is the current Jane Fonda, no more, no less.
 

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